Capitoline Museums: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Musei Capitolini
Areas Of Involvement	Art

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Bronze sculpture of a she-wolf standing over the twins Romulus and Remus, who are kneeling and nursing beneath her, displayed in the Capitoline Museums, Rome.

Marble sculpture Dying Gaul depicts a wounded man reclining with head bowed, surrounded by other classical statues in a museum setting.

The Greek philosopher Plato

Scipio, Publius Cornelius

Lucius Junius Brutus

Marble sculpture of Medusa by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, showing a woman's anguished face framed by intricately carved snakes for hair, displayed in the Capitoline Museums, Rome.

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